Sociology

National pension systems face a range of tough social and economic demands and pressures. These are complex to navigate, especially in a twenty-fir...

Working towards equity of access to higher education remains a fundamental issue of social justice. Despite substantial efforts to redress historic...

Statistical Power Analysis explains the key concepts in statistical power analysis and illustrates their application in both tests of traditional n...

Social Healing draws on a transdisciplinary approach—bringing sociology, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality together—to understand health, so...

Approaching Simone de Beauvoir’s feminism and social commentary as a resource to understand our current crises, Beauvoir and Politics: A Toolkit br...

Providing an international reference work written solely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors, this book offers a powerful overview of ...

This book is a work of political archaeology. It focuses on the people and events at a particular colonial farm in Germantown, Pennsylvania; their ...

A self-help buzzword, a sociological concept, and a target for political institutions; 'wellness' can be interpreted in different ways. It is viewe...

The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South is the first academic study—adopting an interdisciplinary and international perspective—to offer ...

This book traces 500 years of European-American colonization and racialized dominance, expanding our common assumptions about the ways racializatio...

This edited volume explores various issues in family tourism studies and complements the dramatic development of this market segment in China. The ...

This book explores the complex assemblage of biopolitics, citizenship, ethics and human rights concerns in South Asia focusing specifically on wome...

This book seeks to encourage dialectical methods through the interaction of economic, political and social factors to approach social analysis. It ...

Putting forward the argument that the strength of democracies can be measured in how well minorities – especially ethnic and racial minorities – ar...

This book presents a detailed ethnographic study conducted in an urban slum in India. It explores how a State school, as a social and pedagogic ins...

With contributions from six leading scientific countries of the Global North and from the general European Higher Education Area, this book questio...

Of the philosophical movements of the twentieth century existentialism is one of the most powerful and thought-provoking. Its engagement with the t...

The definition of “old” has evolved intensively over the years due to demographic changes, and the ageing population is one of the most frequently ...

Globalization, Urbanization, and Civil Society is an interdisciplinary compilation of chapters concerning civil society in the global geopolitical ...

This book offers a paradigm shift in the framing of identity development by advancing a new, shock-sensitive framework for diverse young adult iden...

The dominant economic explanations of the 20th century are not comprehensive enough to describe the complexity of economy and society and their rel...

Including the category of proximity in theoretical considerations and empirical analyzes in cluster organizations is an attempt to integrate existi...

This book examines, for perhaps the first time, singlehood at the intersections of race, media, language, culture, literature, space, health, and l...

This book explores the relationship between multiplicity and representation of non-European and European-American cultures, with a focus on comics ...

This book examines the economy of contemporary Catholic monasticism from a sociological perspective, considering the ways in which monasteries enga...

This book provides an insight into the everyday lives and experiences of people who live with dogs as companions; and glimpses aspects of the lives...

A much-needed text that takes stock of issues of ethnicity and race in communication studies, this book presents an overview of the most cutting-ed...

This book brings together contributors from multiple disciplines, such as crafts, design, art education, cognitive philosophy, and sociology, to di...

This book critically examines the "mutual illuminations" between literature, religion, architecture, films, performative arts, paintings, woodworks...

The most influential and distinguished women throughout the world are brought together in this unique single-volume publication. Listing more than ...

What if we recognized that the human sciences collectively investigate a few dozen key phenomena that interact with each other? Can we imagine a hu...

This book provides an overview of the opportunities and risks of digitalisation and the platforms that embody it and constitute society's new infra...

Geography & Ethnic Pluralism (1984) examines the debate around pluralism – the segmentation of population by race and culture – as a social and...

Hearing Islam introduces the global religious tradition of Islam through its rich history of sounds and music.The book explores how the centrality ...

This book attempts to equip the reader with a holistic and accessible account of Islam and evolution. It guides the reader through the different va...

This book is the first of its kind to apply social contextual analysis to the issue of poverty. It sets out detailed accounts of poverty based on o...